Dan Chirwa explaining to Patrick Mphaka how the water of Lake Malawi is a natural birthright for all Malawians.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2001South Africa, Southern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001South Africa, Southern Africa
Volume 1 of the study on Hydro-Institutional Mapping of the Olifants River Basin. This study aims to give an overview of water users and influences on water use by institutions in the Steelpoort river basin, a sub-basin of the Olifants. Describes a general methodology and framework for setting out the HIM for a river basin and presents findings from case studies in the basin. The hydro-institutional interactions among all types of water users in a South African river basin are also described.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
Charles Batchelor explaining how the traditional Indian concept of water as a community resource has been replaced by a system of private wells, so restricting the access of poorer people to water.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2001France, South Africa, Indonesia, Germany, Turkey, United States of America, Mexico, Australia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001South Africa, Southern Africa
The study is reported in two Working Papers. Working Paper 17 reports the findings of the HIM exercise. This paper contains the policies, legislation and organizations relevant for understanding of the HIM for the Olifants river basin. It also includes the historical development of the institutional framework in the basin, as this history has left a profound imprint on the South African society at large and is still dictating, in many cases, the interactions between the different organizations.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
For much of the last century the Fengu people living near Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, have held title deeds to their land. In this report the chief of the Fengu explains how the title deeds have helped them, and how his people are responding to the current land redistribution programme in Zimbabwe.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 2001Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
As cities expand to cover farmland with roads and buildings, the conflict between traditional land rights, and modern systems of ownership and distribution become very clear. This report comes from Blantyre in Malawi, where city authorities now charge rent on land that was once freely owned.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001South Africa, Southern Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsJanuary, 2002Sub-Saharan Africa, Lesotho
This paper addresses the amelioration of the impact of AIDS on land tenure and livelihoods. The author argues that, in Lesotho, land policy development should be informed by the status of community support and welfare for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. He offers three main policy recommendations as follows: Land administrators should be fully informed about the epidemic and various legislations that govern the rights of the affected households. This will help to ensure uniform implementation of measures to support affected households.
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